Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gulped down the spread of cold meats eagerly but chewed slowly , like the old man he had become . |
| 2 | Relations with New Zealand and Australia , traditionally the largest source of aid for Fiji , improved somewhat but remained strained . |
| 3 | She had made gallant efforts to pull herself together but had still been confused about the precise sequence of events between arriving at the church and the moment when she had pushed open the door of the Little Vestry . |
| 4 | Nance Frank , one who was dropped , tried to put an all women crew together but failed dismally . |
| 5 | A central part of methods it would seem is tacit knowledge , developed and shared by those who work together but resting unformulated and thus unavailable to those without personal contact . |
| 6 | Perhaps one agrees that expansion of the money supply and inflation do often go together but refuses to accept it as significant unless told why . |
| 7 | Collate means not only collect together but organize it . |
| 8 | After tea , Clare pulled the sitting-room curtains together but did n't switch on the light ; she preferred to watch the firelight flick shadows over the walls . |
| 9 | The miner left the house gloomily but returned in half an hour with the fingers working . |
| 10 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 11 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 12 | Like her , she thought , he had developed the skill of talking endlessly but saying little . |
| 13 | He did n't like her much but wanted her to stay . |
| 14 | I do n't , I mean we do n't have them much but do we really ? |
| 15 | At 58 she may be younger than some of them but she is the ‘ mother confessor ’ of Beauchamp Place , seeing all , hearing much but relaying nothing . |
| 16 | He did not speak much but smiled broadly when she thanked him . |
| 17 | The collected eggs are reburied at the headquarters of the maleo reserve at Panau and left to incubate naturally but protected from predators . |
| 18 | Stevenson considered him thoughtfully but decided there was little profit in going on . |
| 19 | Giles led the team of surgeons who , in 1988 , fought valiantly but failed to save the life of Russell Harty , the writer and broadcaster . |
| 20 | Leeds are the same team basically but needed a spell out of the limelight : everyone is totally obsessed with Man United now and lets hope it will tell on the scum — we are definitely benefitting . |
| 21 | The ring is yellow coloured on the outside , silver inside but carries no hallmark . |
| 22 | The figure of Robert Duvall was holding a briefcase ; he glanced inside but found nothing but a sheet of blank paper . |
| 23 | She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . |
| 24 | He was not gone long but returned with a large piece of tree-bark on which was a writhing heap of fat white maggots . |
| 25 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 26 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 27 | In a theatre he frequently took refuge in a lavatory — not to solve his omnipresent bowel problems necessarily but to escape from autograph-hunters . |
| 28 | Miliutin pointed out that if 125,000 men were enlisted annually but required to serve for no more than seven or eight years , in seven years the country would possess a trained reserve of 750,000 men . |
| 29 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 30 | Then list the rest of the cast below but put Therese 's name at the top , same size lettering as Alfred 's . |